Your favorite venues

Koo's, Long Beach, CA
Tulagi, Boulder, CO
Troubadour, Hollywood, CA
Glasshouse, Pomona, CA

Double Door in Chicago
Metro in Chicago
The Bayou in D.C --long defunct.

The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
The Warfield, San Francisco
The Fillmore, San Francisco
Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco
The Greek Theater Berkeley,CA
The Roxy, Los Angeles
The Wiltern, LA

Red Rocks; Morrison, CO
The Fillmore; The Ogden; Denver, CO
Empire Polo Fields; Indio, CA

Mc Cabes is great. I live about 1 minute from the Glasshouse. The John Anson Ford theater is pretty good, too.

The Medicine Bar at The Custard Factory, in Birmingham Uk!

A really intimate venue with a massive sound system, and huge glass doors that open onto a cool courtyard with an fountain in the middle - that they sometimes drain so skaters can have a mid-gig session... you can sit and smoke, watching the stars, and still be closer to the stage - with perfect sound and sight of stage - than in most medium sized venues...

Either that, or Camden Underworld, London. Love them pillars!

the Cube, Santa Cruz, CA.

It's just a house, but the best show of my life was in the living room.

... maybe I just haven't been to enough different venues

[Edited on Mar 14, 2005 by MisterDionysos]

The Social, Orlando FL
Sluggo's, Pensacola FL
Empire Polo Field, Indio CA
House of Blues Orlando (I know, too corporate but I love it)

Club 6 SF

Club Townsend SF (R.I.P.)

The only decent venues I go to are in London, Underworld and Garage

Shepherd's Bush Empire

bristol fleece & firkin
the stage is tiny & there are pillars everywhere but it's localand usually has a good atmosphere.

hammersmith apollo (formely the odeon) has the best acoustics i've ever heard

and for metal
castle donington

CBGB in NYC
the Balcony at the Troc in Philly

agreed, it is awesome.

Metro
The Troc

The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. The floor bounces.

Bowery Ballroom, Warsaw, MSG, Roseland, Irving Plaza all in NYC are my pics.

Metro and Riviera in Chicago, IL
Memorial Union Terrace in Madison, WI
Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Red Rocks in Morrison, CO

Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va

The Warner Theatre in Washington, DC.

The old Hammerjacks under the bridge in Baltimore, Md.

Merriweather post Pavillion in Columbia, Md.

Jaxx in Springfield, Va.

The Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, NY.

The Ironhorse Saloon in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The Warehouse in Biloxi, Miss.

Painters Mill in Reisterstown, Md. (burned down)

Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg, Md. (torn down)

The Capital Center in Largo, Md. (torn down)

The Wax Museum in Washington, DC. (gone now)

The Bayou in Washington, DC. (gone now)

The 9:30 Club in Towson, Md

The Psychedelly in Bethesda, Md

The Saint in Asbury Park, NJ
The Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ
The Trocadero in Philly, PA
The Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY

And though I've never been there....the Hop & Grape in Manchester, UK has the best club name ever!

ok, i have a question for you, londoner...

there is a pub at the end of a street in camden, just north of the Camden stop. it's right where the street dead ends...i would love to remember the name so i could recommend it to my friends. it's also just a few spots down the road from some underground club and a record shop. if that's too vague, sorry...it's been a few years. i'm hoping someone might know what i'm talking about. no live music, but great jukebox.

anyway, if you ever get stuck in OK and have to see a show here, definitely go to Cain's Ballroom or Deadtown Tavern in Tulsa, The Deli in Norman, and The Conservatory or VZD's in OKC.

Spreckels Theatre - San Diego(my favorite)
The Wiltern - LA
Dorothy Chandler Pavillion - LA
Belly Up Tavern - San Diego
and
The Avalon - LA. Saw Slint and Pinback there last night and it was pretty cool, but it smelled bad.

The Masquerade and The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA.

Best sound for a small place--Mercury Lounge, NYC.